The New York Times R&D team is looking for a senior engineer to build tools and applications that leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance journalism and business operations, exploring how emerging technologies can be applied in service of journalism.
Requirements
- Some exposure developing applications using LLMs, including system design and architecture.
- Experience guiding development of applications from a prototype to deployment in a production environment.
- building with workflow orchestration tools in the LLM context (step functions, Dagster, cloud workflows, etc)
- evaluating LLM-backed application performance and accuracy
- demonstrated experience of improving LLM application performance from baseline using strategies like prompt optimization, multi-prompt workflows, fine-tuning
- Experience building and operating complex distributed systems at scale in GCP and/or AWS
- contributing to and maintaining software projects
Responsibilities
- Research, evaluate, deploy and/or build first- or third-party tools that allow product engineering teams to use LLMs for more tasks more effectively.
- Support LLM-backed applications using those tools, driving improvements to reach target outcomes.
- Identify evaluation and monitoring best practices – both for specific applications and to inform generalized principles for use across the company.
- Oversee technical parts of projects, developing and documenting maintenance plans.
- Lead relationships with product and editorial teams from across The Times to develop specific use cases that advance company strategy.
- Incorporate regular project feedback from key stakeholders.
- Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
Other
- 5+ years professional experience with software engineering within a team environment.
- This is a hybrid-schedule role based in our New York City Headquarters. You are expected to come into the office two days per week.
- You will report to the Strategy Director of R&D.
- We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.
- The New York Times Company is committed to being the world’s best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism.
